Gail+Mazo


 * SUMMARY: Gail Mazo, age 27, died July 12, 1978 after an abortion at Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York, NY.**

In 1978, Twenty-seven-year-old Gail Dianne Sandler Mazo went to Mt. Sinai in New York for an abortion, because she had ulcerative colitis. While she was under general anesthesia for the abortion, Gail began to vomit, and breathed the vomit into her lungs. The material in her lungs caused complications that killed Gail on July 12.

Gail's survivors filed suit against the anesthesiologist for failure to recognize that Gail was a high-risk patient and to treat her accordingly. The family and the doctor eventually settled out of court for $800,000.

As you can see from the graph below, abortion deaths were falling dramatically before legalization. This steep fall had been in place for decades. To argue that legalization lowered abortion mortality simply isn't supported by the data.



Source: New York County (NY) Supreme Court Case No. 8517-80

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